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napalm vs gasoline

gasoline vs napalm

napalm and gasoline both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
napalm Yes No No No
gasoline Yes No No No
As nouns, gasoline is a hypernym of napalm; that is, gasoline is a word with a broader meaning than napalm:
  • napalm: gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers
  • gasoline: a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
Other hypernyms of napalm include gas, gasolene, petrol.
napalm (noun) gasoline (noun)
gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
Difference between napalm and gasoline

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